Books and collectors 1200-1700. Essays printed to Andrew Watson. The British library studies in history of the book.

From: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada | Date: September 22, 1999 | Copyright information

James P. Carley and Colin G.C. Tite, eds. Books and Collectors 1200-1700. Essays Presented to Andrew Watson. The British Library Studies in the History of the Book. London: The British Library, 1997. xxii, 501 pp.; $150.00 (hardcover). ISBN 0-7123-4506-x.

Festschriften are notoriously difficult books to read from cover to cover, and even more difficult to review. Typically, they are a kind of academic pot-luck supper assembled by colleagues and former students, and display little thematic unity or rationale other than the association of their authors with the scholar being ...

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